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  What police have to deal with

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  so, the actions of cops have come under scrutiny in recent days, what with the trial of derek chauvin and the death of daunte wright.

  i certainly hope justice is served in both those cases.. what is easy for people to forget, is just what police officers have to deal with on a regular basis, during their interactions with citizens.. here's a video breaking down one such interaction.. a car owner was driving his car but the tags weren't legally displayed.

  cops wanted him to pull over but the driver continued driving for a mile and a half with a police car following with sirens and lights.

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  TD:

  I read the article you posted. Thanks for posting it. It is well worth the read and I agree with the author.

  I am not at war with my neighbors. Every person I have arrested is a fellow American and a fellow member of my community (I live in the community I police). I have regularly run into people I have arrested at the grocery store and at restaurants. I have used force to make arrests, but when it was all said and done I treat suspects with dignity. Not because they deserve it or earned it, but because that is what I stand for. I even bought a guy lunch on the way to jail because he hadn't eaten all day and he was cooperative with me.

  I was taught in the academy that you can't control others if you can't control yourself. I was also taught that if you use force it better be to make a justifiable arrest. I was also taught that when their are multiple officers on scene 1 officer gives verbal commands so as not to confuse suspects.

  Those 2 officers lost control of themselves, confused the driver, and then used force, but failed to arrest the driver. The driver did wrong, but the response was uncalled for.
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  What police have to deal with

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. current

  so, the actions of cops have come under scrutiny in recent days, what with the trial of derek chauvin and the death of daunte wright.

  i certainly hope justice is served in both those cases.. what is easy for people to forget, is just what police officers have to deal with on a regular basis, during their interactions with citizens.. here's a video breaking down one such interaction.. a car owner was driving his car but the tags weren't legally displayed.

  cops wanted him to pull over but the driver continued driving for a mile and a half with a police car following with sirens and lights.

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  https://www.odmp.org/search/year/2021

  As of April 15, 2021 28 police officers were Murdered in the line of duty in the United States.
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  What police have to deal with

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. current

  so, the actions of cops have come under scrutiny in recent days, what with the trial of derek chauvin and the death of daunte wright.

  i certainly hope justice is served in both those cases.. what is easy for people to forget, is just what police officers have to deal with on a regular basis, during their interactions with citizens.. here's a video breaking down one such interaction.. a car owner was driving his car but the tags weren't legally displayed.

  cops wanted him to pull over but the driver continued driving for a mile and a half with a police car following with sirens and lights.

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  truth_b_known

  Being a police officer in the U.S. is a hard job and it is only getting harder. People elect legislators to pass laws. Once laws as passed it is up to law enforcement to enforce the law so violators are held accountable. In short, politicians make laws and expect people with guns to enforce them. Every criminal law has a bullet attached to it.

  No one wants to discuss how to fix the root cause of crime. Talking heads just want to "reform policing". That's like putting a band aid on a cancerous tumor and expecting it go away.
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  The Difference Between Doctors & Nurses and Police?

  by Simon in

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  what is the difference between doctors & nurses, and police?.

  studies have estimated that medical errors cause 250,000 deaths per year in the us.. police only kill around a thousand people each year in total, with only a small number being unjustified or accidental.. so the difference?.

  police are expected to be perfect and for all the hype, you're are far greater risk of being killed by someone in the health industry than by a cop.

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  No one argues with doctors and nurses.

  I have over 20 years in as a police officer. I have about had it. The sheer insanity the talking heads spew makes my head explode.
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  WT Says Don't Contract with False Religion, But Does Just That

  by Sea Breeze in

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  let's all open up our crystals to 2 facet 1: 1 - here we lean about how buddha escapes prism.

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  I said I would never set foot in a Kingdom Hall. I'll make an exception for this one.
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  Losing My Religion - America's progressive estrangement from organized religion

  by EdenOne in

  1. watchtower
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  this article on the latest gallup survey:.

  https://www.yahoo.com/news/america-losing-religion-effects-long-093028404.html.

  in 1937, 73% of americans would be affiliated with some organized religion; that number remained steady until 1999: (70%); the 21st century brought about a major shift: 50% in 2018; 47% in the latest survey.. children who grew up in households without organized religion are less likely to affiliate to some form of organized religion.. it's not only a generational difference; the growth in those who express no religious preference is also on the rise in generation x (those born between mid 1960's and early 1980's).

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  Humans are wired for religion. Rationalism has caused a declined in Judeo-Christian religions in the west. Government has replaced the invisible sky father for many as their "savior".
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  How long did it take before you realized that you missed the obvious?

  by pistolpete in

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  2. beliefs

  remember when the public speaker in the kingdom hall or convention related the ten plagues and the parting of the red sea?.

  the finale when jehovah closes the red sea and swallows pharaoh's entire army of egyptian men.. when i was a little kid about 5 years old and listened to this story, i would think---wow jehovah is strong.

  when i started school and started learning compassion as early as the first grade i started wondering?????.

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  How many Egyptian chariots and spears have been recovered from the bottom of the Red Sea?
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  What do you think will be different in the Organization after the pandemic is over?

  by ExCircuitOverseer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  whether they go back to door-to-door or not, what will be different?

  do you think there will be a noticeable drop-off in attendance as we have read on here that many have left or faded?

  will there be a mass selling of halls?

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  They have said that if the door to door work was so important to Jehovah, ---He would have never allowed it to be stopped for over a year.

  Undeniable logic.
  
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  What do you think will be different in the Organization after the pandemic is over?

  by ExCircuitOverseer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  whether they go back to door-to-door or not, what will be different?

  do you think there will be a noticeable drop-off in attendance as we have read on here that many have left or faded?

  will there be a mass selling of halls?

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  truth_b_known

  Whatever happens, the Watchtower will spin it as a sign of the final part of the last days.

  Meeting attendance will not just go down, but I imagine it will be the old timers who are filling the seats at the Kingdom Hall.

  The door-to-door ministry has been the main pillar of JW life, but I think it will evolve. To keep members active in any form of the ministry they will have to continue to dumb down their product. The Watchtower will do this as a cost saving measure and a safeguard from having their members do their own research.
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  Do you sometimes bemoan the LOST idea, or Belief, that Someone Powerful was going to set all things right?

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so it looks like about half of my jw relatives are not going back to the meetings once they open up the kingdom halls.

  the main reason all of them give is that if we were truly living in the last days, jehovah would not have allowed the door to door preaching work, and kingdom hall meetings to stop for over a year.. the elders have talked to some of them and tried to convince them that letter writing is accomplishing the same thing as door to door, and zoom is the same as meetings-----------but my relatives just won’t buy it anymore.

  just a note here, at first, the kingdom hall lock-downs, and the no preaching door to door was not that bad,the relatives still held on to their faith strongly because they believed it was temporary.

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  Simon:

  You hit the nail on the head. A psychologist recently commented on the current influx of super hero genre of movies. In short, he states that people want someone else to be their savior. It is basically the victim mentality because being a victim is easy - it requires absolutely no effort or action.

  First it was some supernatural power, a god or gods, are going to save us. Then it is the government. We live in a society where the masses put responsibility of saving people on the government and suddenly everything is a right. It's not our job. Our taxes pay for salvation and someone other than ourselves should pay those taxes.